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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Darcy and the Twelve Specious Arguments.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.180131.18548@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <nyikos.727394039@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <v31kmic@zola.esd.sgi.com> <nyikos.727661771@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:01:31 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.727661771@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >In <v31kmic@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
- >
- >
- >>In article <nyikos.727394039@milo.math.scarolina.edu>, nyikos@math.scarolina.edu writes:
- >>|Oh, I have been assured that Darcy has made a bad joke about someone
- >>|being a child molester, and that he later made a feeble apology for it,
- >>|but having seen neither the joke nor the apology, I continue to withhold
- >>|judgment. [...]
- >
- >>I saw both. You can feel free to judge Darcy as a squirming
- >>slug who would rather lie & compound an error than admit he was
- >>wrong. Perhaps, though, knowing this will help you identify
- >>with Darcy. After all, I've seen the same behavior from you
- >>here, though not on any issues as personally painful to others
- >>as Darcy's. Darcy, after all, accused a victim of sexual abuse
- >>of being a child molester, and then refused to apologize. You
- >>just play games with your news server and blame other people
- >>for your flaming habits.
- >
- >Seeing how you have just judged me, I feel safe in *not* believing
- >what you say about Darcy until you show me what he said.
-
- Let me save you the trouble, Peter. Based on a vague, general statement
- from Susie Garvin's SO "knowing all about child sexual abuse", I joked,
- in alt.flame, about her supposed poor choice of SO, i.e. implying that the
- SO was a (former) child molester. Then, in the very next article in the
- thread, once it was clarified that Susie's SO was a victim, rather than a
- (former) perpetrator of child sexual abuse, I clearly indicated that I had
- been suffering from a dearth of context (this was an admission of error,
- though no-one saw fit to recognize it as such). Somewhat later, after a
- protracted, disgusting charade of self-righteousness had washed over into
- t.a, I posted an apology. None of the parties guilty for the charade have
- ever apologized for unnecessarily exposing t.a to it. As usual, I hold the
- moral high ground.
-
- Let this be an object lesson to you, Peter: even when one DOES capitulate to
- TSAKC's blustery demands for apologies, one will still get criticized for not
- apologizing (or not apologizing "soon enough", or "well enough", or whatever).
- So why bother? What good does it do?
-
- - Kevin
-
- UNRETRACTED LIE
- ---------------
-
- "Darcy has been consistently criticized for labelling
- himself 'pro-choice' while arguing for restrictions on abortion."
- Susie Garvin
- Sun, 18 Oct 92 20:37:06 GMT
- <1992Oct18.203706.21850@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
-